For the last couple days we’ve run several posts reporting on Sony Picture’s apparent decision to make a $50M+ soft money contribution to the Obama campaign a month prior to election day in the form of a Mark Boal/Kathryn Bigelow
From the Associated Press: Reports identifying some of the U.S. troops killed when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan began circulating Sunday. Thirty Americans and eight Afghans were killed in the crash, making it the deadliest single loss for
From The Associated Press: Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s on Friday downgraded the United States’ credit rating first time in the history of the ratings. The credit rating agency said that it is cutting the country’s top AAA rating
From The Associated Press: President Barack Obama has signed legislation to increase the nation’s borrowing authority and avert a potentially catastrophic government default. Obama signed the bill privately in the Oval Office little more than an hour after the Senate
From The Associated Press: The deal reached by Congress to raise the debt ceiling and cut more than $2 trillion in public spending should have only a minor impact on the economy for the next two years. Almost all the
With more than 90 votes from Democrats, the House has passed the recently announced deal to hike the debt ceiling. From The Associated Press: With barely a day to act, the polarized US House of Representatives have approved a massive
From The Associated Press: A fast-approaching deadline is bound to heighten anxiety. That’s what happening on Wall Street as investors grow increasingly uneasy about the political stalemate over raising the nation’s debt ceiling. The Dow Jones industrial average has closed
From The Associated Press: Democratic Rep. David Wu of Oregon announced Tuesday that he will resign amid political fallout from an 18-year-old woman’s allegations she had an unwanted sexual encounter with him. Within days of the allegation, Democratic leaders requested
From the Associated Press: BOSSIER CITY, La. — A south Bossier City homeowners association has sued to force a family to remove a front yard sign supporting their son’s military service because it violated subdivision covenants. The Times reports that
From The Associated Press: Decrying a “partisan three-ring circus” in the nation’s capital, President Barack Obama criticized a newly minted Republican plan to avert an unprecedented government default Monday night and said congressional leaders must produce a compromise that can
NFL owners and players agreed early Monday to the terms of a deal to end the lockout, and players were expected to begin the voting process later in the day, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.
According to that old cliché, the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. In Alabama, at least one tax defies death…literally. For over one hundred years, the state has collected millions of dollars from its residents via a
From The Associated Press: The roller-coaster debate over raising the nation’s debt limit has forced the White House to explain away, brush aside or even ignore declarations by President Barack Obama and aides that no longer served much purpose in
From the Associated Press: SAN DIEGO — About 200 active-duty troops and veterans wearing T-shirts advertising their branch of service marched Saturday in San Diego’s gay pride parade with American flags and rainbow banners, marking what is believed to be
Forbes Executive Editor for business news Dan Bigman told Big Journalism that Forbes stands by an online article accusing Sarah Palin of possibly breaking the law. He said Forbes was just “raising the question” of whether Palin broke Federal Trade
From the Associated Press: Ronald Reagan was hailed as “a great American hero” Monday as his admirers unveiled a 10-foot-tall (3-meter-tall) statue of the former U.S. president near the American embassy in London. Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser and secretary
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Israel, Greece and Turkey cooperate to stall the Gaza flotilla The U.S. flotilla ship ‘Audacity of Hope’ is being kept from leaving port for Gaza by Greek coast guard A growing strategic relationship between
The Obama administration chose the eve of the holiday marking our Nation’s birth to acknowledge publicly behavior in which it has long been stealthily engaged to the United States’ extreme detriment: Its officials now admit that they are embracing the
From the Global Security Newswire: Few countries have this capability Iranian state television on Monday aired videos of subterranean launch facilities said to be holding medium- and long-range missiles for retaliating against a potential military strike, the Associated Press reported.
From the Associated Press: Riot police fired tear gas at youths hurling rocks near the Greek finance ministry Tuesday, trying to quell the anger unleashed by a general strike as parliament debated new cost-cutting measures. The latest austerity measures must
From the Associated Press: The floats were there, the music and dancing, too–all the usual staples of one of the world’s oldest and largest gay pride parades. But this year, something new joined the spectacle on the streets of New
From the Associated Press: Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, who is in Cuba following emergency surgery, is in “critical” but stable condition, Miami’s El Nuevo Herald reported Saturday, citing US intelligence sources. Chavez’s government has said he was operated on for
From the Associated Press: The Federal Reserve acknowledged Wednesday that the economy is growing more slowly than it expected. But it said it will complete its $600 billion Treasury bond buying program by June 30 as planned and announced no
From the Associated Press: Labor regulators are set to propose sweeping new rules Tuesday that would dramatically speed up the time frame for union elections, a move that could make it easier for struggling unions to organize new members, and
Tensions are spiking over the disputed territory around the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. China, Vietnam, & the Philippines all lay claim to the area and supposed deposits of oil and natural gas have increased interest and conflict.
